My biography from the ULC's Who's Who directory.

My spiritual calling and ministerial work both focus on energy medicine practices which came to the Americas from Central Asia over the Bering Straits many thousands of years ago. I teach & administer the Great Rites of the Munay-Ki, the highest initiations of the Q'ero Nation of the Andes. I am a full mesa carrier in that lineage and a graduate of The Four Winds Society's training programs.

My spiritual path is most aligned with Animism. As a child I learned respect for Nature from my Dad while camping and hiking in the forests, deserts, rivers and mountains of the West. I learned tracking, foraging and various uses of plants. I have a deep kinship with and reverence for wilderness, the land, all our relations. In my teens I started seriously roaming on my own, which continues to this day. My lifelong study of Anthropology has taken me around the world, to visit people in the Americas, and Asia. I am particularly drawn to the world's high mountains, deserts, great tropical and temperate forests.

In my fifties I entered semi-retirement from my manufacturing business - Magnetic Graffiti - enabling me to take time to do more walking meditation on the planet, and reconnecting with my true nature. A chance hiking trip to Peru brought me an invitation to commit to the Andean energy medicine path. I embarked on intensive study of these teachings, which expanded my natural intuition and enabled me to understand more of the amazing synchronicity in all life.

I was ordained by the ULC in 1970. I provide clients with transition, lifepath and spiritual coaching. I craft and perform ceremony for commemorating various occasions, passages and events. I work with clients, their friends and families to resolve their issues around relationships, death and dying; including assisting clients with consciously crossing over. I work with people, places, and animals. I assist with providing energetic balance, protections, soul retrieval, destiny work, and generational clearing. I do blessing and energetic clearing of land, homes and other spaces.

My practice has developed nationally & internationally. I am specially trained to do distance work, which is an integral part of Andean medicine practice. Time and space are understood in a different way from the western linear view; therefore, distance work is no more complicated than assisting someone in the same room. I use the phone & internet as communication tools to discuss & integrate the work. I love being able to blend the traditional ways with new technology!

I am enormously grateful to my lifelong love and partner, Creek Norris, for sharing and encouraging me in my personal growth over our more than three decades together. Our family business - www.MagneticGraffiti.com and public radio show www.IridiumRadio.com have provided further outlets for expression of our world village philosophy. Our mountaintop home in the wilderness of Northern California feeds my love of nature, in the place where my roots are deepest. I love my forest and garden, which provide food, medicine, refuge for wildlife and sacred space to nurture the spirit.

I am infinitely grateful for my life experience and the teachings of everyone I have encountered. I am also grateful for the opportunity to serve my clients nonjudgementally, with unconditional love, commitment and integrity.

In conclusion, all I can say is . . . it is a long and totally amazing journey.